Islamic Law Blog

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “The Succession to the Prophet in Zaydi Theology: An Editio Princeps of a Treatise on the Imamate from the Early Sixth/Twelfth Century” (Shii Studies Review), Hassan Ansari (Institute for Advanced Study) and others argue that “the Mukhtaṣar fī l-imāma is most likely authored by Zayd b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Bayhaqī al-Burūghanī (d. c. 545/1150),… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: Radio ReOrient interviewed Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California) about The Islamic Secular (Oxford University Press), which “provocatively challenges the assumption that the secular is external to Islam and the Islamicate.” See part 1 here and part two here. In “Aligning Islamic ethics with reproductive health policy: addressing gaps in early termination access in Saudi… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “What Do Sources Say about Agricultural Slavery (and Why Don’t They Say More)? A Study on Legal Sources for Early Islamic Ifrīqiya” (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Antonia Bosanquet (Utrecht University) “examines the evidence for agricultural slavery in early Islamic Ifrīqiya and relates it to the existing historiography on… CONTINUE READING